SALKO MRKONJI\u0106, son of IBRAHIM, born on January 1, 1923, in Mostar. He completed elementary school. He was a worker and became a member of the Communist Youth League (SKOJ) in 1941. He joined the Battalion in January 1944 as a fighter. He was killed at Kula near Konjic in a battle against the Chetniks on February 17, 1944*. The partisans were losing the battle as their weapons froze, and the battle soon turned into a Chetnik pursuit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“During the attempt to resist the attacker, our machine gunner Branko Sko\u010daji\u0107 Me\u0161ak tried to use urine to thaw the frozen firing mechanisms of the machine gun, but he was unsuccessful. Most of the fighters had their rifles frozen, and instead of rifles, our fighters had unusable ‘toljage’. The Chetniks started to advance and, realizing that there was no resistance, they began chasing our fighters, shouting as they went (\u2026) \u0160erif Buri\u0107<\/a> and Salko Mrkonji\u0107, workers from Mostar, encountered a group of Chetniks while fleeing. The Chetniks managed to kill them, stripped them of their clothing and footwear, leaving them almost naked in the snow.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SALKO MRKONJI\u0106, son of IBRAHIM, born on January 1, 1923, in Mostar. He completed elementary school. He was a worker and became a member of the Communist Youth League (SKOJ) in 1941. He joined the Battalion in January 1944 as a fighter. 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Until the formation of the 13th Herzegovina Brigade in May 1944, 827 fighters passed through the Battalion, and 445 of them perished, including 211 from Mostar. Of the 86 women, 43 were killed. Mostar residents also fought in many other units of the NOVJ (People's Liberation Army of Yugoslavia) and among the ranks of the activists of the National Liberation War in Mostar and other cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina... According to the records of the organization SUBNOR Mostar, every third citizen was an activist of the National Liberation War, 670 fighters were killed, 1517 were victims of fascist terror, and 206 were civilian war victims. D\u017eemil \u0160arac, article \"Sa Mostarcima\" (\"With the People from Mostar\"), Hercegovina No. 9, p. 221.\r\n\r\n\"And we were all young. Those of us who were 17, 18 years old, some seemed old even though they were not older than 25. The ones over 30 were rare. There were girls and boys with different characteristics and temperaments, robust and calm, talkative and silent, recklessly brave and rational, ordinary and above-average, semi-literate and university-educated, workers and highly skilled craftsmen, high school students and university students, skilled singers and those who couldn't carry a tune, jokers and serious-minded individuals. From all our nations and religions: Muslims, Croats, Serbs, Jews, Orthodox Christians, Catholics, Muslims, Jews, atheists, and semi-atheists. Some were from straight from Mostar and others from the surrounding locations, from Konjic and outside Konjic.\" (Hercegovina Magazine No. 7, p. 238)\r\n\r\nGroups of new fighters arrived from Mostar every 10-15 days, and the Unit quickly grew into a solid military force. 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